Jackie Chan is the most well-known and influential Chinese actor in the world. In his early years, he began to become popular in Hong Kong with the movies "Snake-shaped Executioner" and "Drunken Fist", then successfully broke into Hollywood with the movie "Red Fan District", and later established his position in Hollywood with the film "Rush Hour" series.
These films are Jackie Chan's masterpieces, and they are also classic action movies in the hearts of the audience. With these classic action films, Jackie Chan was named the first place in the list of "20 Greatest Action Movie Stars of All Time" by the New York Times in 2012.
It was also in the year that Jackie Chan was named the world's greatest action star, and the movie "Zodiac" starring him was released, which grossed $171 million worldwide.
The film "Zodiac" is of great significance to Jackie Chan because it is the 101st film in which Jackie Chan starred, and it is also the last film in which he starred in a fierce fight and dangerous leader.
In addition, the film also won Jackie Chan two Guinness World Records, namely "the actor who performed the most stunts" and "the filmmaker with the most positions in a film".
Under normal circumstances, a filmmaker holds at most three positions in a film, that is, director, screenwriter and lead actor.
For example, in the movie "Tai 囧", Xu Zheng took over the three positions of director, screenwriter and star. In the movie "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Jing also took over these three positions.
Jackie Chan held as many as 15 positions in the movie "Zodiac", which were producer, producer, director, screenwriter, starring, action director, art director, photography, lighting, field manager, life producer, music, props, stand-in and theme song singing.
The 15 roles also include a stand-in, which can't help but make the audience feel a little skeptical about why an international superstar like Jackie Chan should act as a stand-in.
In fact, when he first stepped into the film industry, Jackie Chan started from a stand-in, and then he finally became famous in 1978 after years of hard work.
Now that he has become a superstar, he has played a stand-in in the movie "Zodiac", which is actually very normal. There are a lot of difficult and dangerous shots in the film, and some of them may not be able to be done by other actors, so Jackie Chan personally went to the scene as a stand-in to complete the shooting of the shot.
A person holding so many positions in a movie, it is not very comprehensive to define Jackie Chan only as an actor or director, and the title of "filmmaker" is really appropriate to use on him.
Jackie Chan is now nearly 70 years old, but he is still active on the big screen, and the movie "Dragon Horse Spirit" starring him and Liu Haocun has just been completed.